we're expecting wendy tutt to receive her winning trophy —— wendy tuck., by the way. the event has been going on since 1996. they have gone to destinations including uruguay, south africa, china, and northern ireland. nearly half of the crews have come from 41 countries and had no previous sailing experience before signing up. i'm sure you've done it, travelling on the underground, and you have seen posters asking for people to sign up to the challenge, but these people have gone for it, raising money. some of them have jobs to go back to and some don't, but they have been away from their families for a year. incredible achievement. well done to wendy tuck and also nikki henderson, only 25 yea rs and also nikki henderson, only 25 years old. she and her team came in second. we are going to stay with this because we are expecting wendy tuck to come to the stage, the australian who has won the clipper challenge. we can listen in to our commentators. commentator: victorious over all, will you please give your biggest round of applause for wendy tuck and her t

and i am pleased to say we're joined by the winning skipper, wendy tuck. congratulations, wendy.at last to the end? it's amazing — i can't believe it, i can't believe we've done it and this is just extraordinary. the reception here in liverpool is just amazing. you are the first female skipper to win this event. how does that feel? amazing, it still hasn't sunk in yet. i don't think, it's... yeah, not yet. and what message do you hope that imparts to other women, i guess, to give it a go as you have done? i think if you put your heart to anything, you can go out and do anything. if you just believe in yourself, you can do anything. you are a professional. 0bviously, those who you were on board with aren't. what kind of challenges does that bring? the hardest part is getting the team to gel. you might have people who are really competitive, people who aren't. and just trying to get them all to come together, that's the hardest part. you can teach anybody the sail, and a lot of people who could sail but that's the easy part. it's making the team come together, that's the hardest pa

australian sailor wendy tuck has become the first female skipper to ever win the clipper round of the world yacht race. thousands watched her team lift the trophy in liverpool, nearly a year after they set out from the city. it is amazing. i can't believe it. i can't believe we have done it. the reception here in liverpool is amazing. we'll find out in the next half hour whether geraint thomas will become the third brit — and first welshman — to win the tour de france and at 4:30pm, we'll hear what foreign correspondents based in london make of the week's news in dateline. first, it was the hot weather causing disruption, now, it's storms leading to misery for tens of thousands of people. violent storms and lightning strikes have caused the cancellation of flights and trains. among the worst affected have been stansted airport, the eurotunnel, and the east coast mainline. simonjones reports. the holiday getaway from hell, seemingly unending queues at stansted airport as flights were cancelled, blamed on the thunderstorms that meant planes couldn't fly safely. after waiting for servera

the winners are led by australian skipper wendy tuck, the first female to wina skipper wendy tuck, theod news for liverpool. yes, we have started and finished in liverpool several times and to be able to race right up the river mersey is pretty special. there is a crowd of about 200,000 people here. and the crews will be going round the docs here in liverpool through the day and we hope to catch up with some of them when they come ashore. thank you. labour party members in birkenhead have passed a motion condemning their pro—brexit mp, frank field, for supporting the government in the commons last week. they also urged the party at westminster to withdraw the whip from mr field. he has been in birkenhead since 1979. -- he he has been in birkenhead since 1979. —— he has been mp in birkenhead. earlier, the constituency party of kate hoey at vauxhall in south london took a similar decision. travel disruption continues for many across the the uk after the hot and stormy weather yesterday. at the moment there are delays of up to five hours on the eurotunnel. they've asked passengers not to

australian wendy tuck became the first female skipper to win the 40,000 nautical mile race. eeing her family. a bit ofa a bit of a relief, now the race is done, a bit of everything at the moment, i can't wait to see my mother and grandmother. earlier our correspondent peter harris spoke to us from the finish line in liverpool. this is the yacht back in the dock, they have been coming in from the river mersey, at the end of this amazing feat of endurance, 40,000 nautical miles and 11 months away overall, and a wonderful experience for these crews, who are not professional, to come back and be greeted by their friends and family backin greeted by their friends and family back in liverpool where it began in august. last year. with mejonathan and fiona, who were among the crews, hurricanes, goodness knows what you have dealt with? we have been through everything, every experience you can ever imagine, highs and lows, but what you get out of the sailing is great people, i'd never sailed before and it was a great experience and i would never change it for the world. there must be t

australian sailor wendy tuck has become the first woman skipper to ever win the clipper round the worldtime for the travel show. hello, and welcome to the travel show. coming up this week, rajan follows in the footsteps of lawrence of arabia injordan. we swap water for wine and get a soaking at a festival in spain. and our global guru has some tips on where to find the best september sun around the world. this week we are injordan, which is marking the centenary of the culmination of the great arab revolt, when much of the middle east rose up against the ottoman empire. it was also the inspiration for the classic 19605 film lawrence of arabia. so we sent rajan there 100 years on. head south from the capital amman towards the saudi arabian border, and you find yourself in another world. wadi rum. a natural wonder, a geological phenomenon. a valley which is basically huge swathes of red sand surrounded by mountains and ridges of really strange shapes made of sandstone and granite. astonishing. so otherworldly is wadi rum that it has actually been used by hollywood as a stand—in for mars.

and australian sailor wendy tuck has become the first female skipper to ever win the clipper round thee on those stories at three p:m.. now on bbc news, it's time for witness. hello. welcome to witness, with me, razia iqbal. i'm here at the british library to guide you through five more extraordinary moments from recent history. we'll meet a woman who was caught up in the violent struggle for a jewish state in british—controlled palestine. we'll hear how the iconic sydney opera house was built. we'll meet the man behind a death revolution in the us. and a nurse who witnessed the creation of britain's treasured national health service in 19118. but we begin with an event which still haunts iranian/us relations. in 1988, a us warship — the vincennes — shot down an iranian passengerjet over the persian gulf, killing all 290 people on board. first—hand accounts of the incident are rare, but witness spoke to rudy pahoyo, a us navy combat cameraman who happened to be filming on the vincennes that day. it was a tragedy. we did shoot down an airliner. one of those things, you just... i'm still

wendy tuck becoming the first women to skipper the winning crew.e who are really competitive, people who aren't and just trying to get them all together, that's the hardest part. you can teach anybody to sail and i had a few people who could sail but that's the easy part. it's making the team come together that's the hardest part. it had been an 11—month journey across a0,000 nautical miles. the 11 yachts, each with around 20 crew, tackled everything the elements could throw at them. all but the skippers are non—professionals including a teacher and a nurse. for them, it was a life—changing experience. my main aim from this was to come away a better person, it was an ideal way to take a step out of my normal day—to—day life for a year. a pretty extreme way of doing it but i definitely managed to achieve that. the round the world yacht race will be staged again next year. this year's competitors say it has been a feat of spirit and stamina that they will never forget. peter harris, bbc news, liverpool. qatar's successful bid to host the football wor

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is set to win as he maintains his lead on the penultimate day of the race and australian sailor wendy tucke the first female skipper to win the clipper round the world yacht race. parts of the uk have had almost a month's rainfall in just a few hours, as thunderstorms replace the long summer heatwave. lightning strikes have added to the misery for thousands of travellers, with cancelled flights and trains. among the worst affected have been passengers at stansted airport and those using eurotunnel as simon jones reports. the holiday getaway from hell. the queues grew and grew at stansted airport as flights were cancelled. blamed on the thunderstorms that meant planes could not fly safely. ryanair, the main operator at stansted, has apologised to customers. it is incredible how unaccountable they are. there is no one here to deal with it. the queues are neverending and people are supposed to wait. it is ridiculous. we were on board the plane for six hours and then they say, "it's delayed. the flight is delayed." then we come back here. another queue for ten hours. the storms that swept in f

that is wendy tuck, the australian.nd have a go. and is this idea of having a go important in this race? providing you can raise the money, anyone can have a go. there is no particular criteria to meet. yes, and so many of these people onboard are not professional yachtsman and women. the skippers are professional but there are teachers onboard, nurses onboard, and they have given up 11 years of their lives to do this. aside from what you have to face, the race organiser was telling as earlier about harry kane ‘s and that kind of thing, but you have also got to get on with 20 or so other people. the race organiser was telling as about hurricanes. what a life changing experience that may be. thank you. it is obviously going to bea thank you. it is obviously going to be a fabulous afternoon. plenty more if you have the opportunity to get down to liverpool to the docks is after plenty to see. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's mike bushell. geraint thomas looks like he may be able to get over

and australian sailor wendy tuck has become the first female skipper to ever win the clipper round theht race. we will have more on those stories at the top of the hour. now on bbc news, it's time for click. this week, big green dome. deep blue sea. and that yellow jersey. the eight planets in our solar system, all unique and instantly recognisable. and don't they look amazing from our viewing platform here in outer space? now, what we really wanted to show you is just how good the visuals have become. not only does the graphics computer generate all of these lovely images, but as the cameras move about, the objects in the background appear to stay in their correct positions. now, this is not easy. this technology originally came from the movies and now it has come to tv. so, here we are in the bbc‘s virtual studio, and the first thing you will notice is that obviously, the graphics computer replaces anything that's green with the background. but in order to draw all of the objects in the right place in 3—d space, the computer needs to know exactly where the cameras are, so it can draw

for the winners a moment to savour, and a first true for the will round the world yacht race, wendy tuckel together because she might have people who are very competitive and people who aren't, getting them to come together is the hardest part. you can teach anybody to sail and had a few people who could sail but it is making the team come together thatis it is making the team come together that is the hardest part. it had been 11 months across 40,000 nautical miles, the 11 yachts each with around 20 crew tackled everything the elements could throw at them. but the skippers are nonprofessionals, including a teacher and a nurse and then it was life changing experience. my main aim was to come away a better person, it was an ideal time to take a step away from my normal day—to—day life, and i definitely managed to achieve that. the round the world yacht race will be staged again next year and this year's competitors say it has been a feed of spirit and stamina that they will never forget. peter harris, bbc news, liverpool. what's the perfect way to celebrate your 80th birthday? how about a

for the first time, a female skipper, wendy tuck from australia, has led an amateur crew to victory.s she has another talent. the former bake off judgejoined rick astley at camp bestival on the drums. it's not clear how the tv chef ended up on stage, but the singer of hits including ‘never gonna give you up,‘ tweeted he'd "bumped into" her earlier in the day.

australia has become the first woman to lead a team to victory in the round world yacht race skipper wendy tuckand her serenity coast team won the clipper two thousand and seventeen two thousand and eighteen with another woman led team coming in second to twelve identical yards return to liverpool england nearly a year after leaving for the race which covers forty thousand nautical miles talk was followed by the henderson a british skipper let her team to second place. people around the world spent half the night with their eyes on the skies getting their fell of the longest total lunar eclipse of the century the shadow of the earth through the moon into darkness and turned it red mars also put in an appearance and its closest approach earth for fifteen years. even if it was past bedtime everyone came. telescopes improved ny let people get that little bit closer to the moon. but just looking up works to. those with cameras captured the heavenly body on film. in south africa people stopped in the streets reading it it's a very long list. so it's a bit up to. the book. bartered it looks very diff

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we'll be live in liverpool for the end of the clipper race, where wendy tuck has become the first female skipper to win a round—the—world yacht race. it's saturday the 28th ofjuly. our top story: voters are being systematically manipulated by the spread of fake news, according to a group of mps. a leaked report, from the commons media select committee, warns the uk is facing a democratic crisis and is urging tighter regulation of social media networks. our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones reports. this report pulls together the story of an enquiry which has roamed far and wide, looking into the scandal over cambridge analytica's harvesting of facebook data, examining the use of data during the eu referendum campaign, and the extent of foreign interference in uk politics. it's the language used which is most striking — there's talk of the relentless targeting of hyper—partisan views which play to the fears and prejudices of people. it warns that our democracy is at risk and calls for action to protect it. among the measures the mps demand are new rules to make online political c

we'll be live in liverpool — for the end of the clipper race, where wendy tuck has become the first femalekipper to win a round—the—world yacht race. it's saturday, july 28th. our top story... voters are being systematically manipulated by the spread of fake news, according to a group of mps. a leaked report from the commons media select committee warns the uk is facing a "democratic crisis", and is urging tighter regulation of social media networks. our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones, reports. this report pulls together the story of an inquiry which has roamed far and wide, looking into the scandal over cambridge analytica's harvesting of facebook data, examining the use of data during the eu referendum campaign, and the extent of foreign interference in uk politics. it's the language used which is most striking — there's talk of the relentless targeting of hyper—partisan views, which play to the fears and prejudices of people. it warns that our democracy is at risk and calls for action to protect it. among the measures the mps demand are new rules to make online political ca

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also coming up , australian sailor wendy tuck has become the first female skipper to ever win the clippere waiting at liverpool to welcome them back to dry land. that was this morning.

also coming up, australian sailor wendy tuck has become the first female skipper to win the clipper round

australian sailor wendy tuck has become the first female skipper ever to win a round—the—world internationaln liverpool. and second place also went to a woman — that was british sailor skipper nikki henderson. the 25—year—old from guildford is the youngest ever skipper in this race. maybe a future winner of that race. before we go, a reminder of our top story, another great performance. geraint thomas will become the first welshman to win the tour de france in paris tomorrow after he maintained his overall lead following today's time trial. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. good evening, the torrential rain that brought fun northern ireland eases off the cd. but we see wet weather push across the western half of scotla nd weather push across the western half of scotland that becomes combined —— confined. it will strengthen into severe gale force. elsewhere we see outbreaks of rain ease off and then turn wetter again. western england and wales. sunday will be a windy day. strong winds around the northwest of scotland. dls around the south. outbreaks of rain. t

wendy tuck becomes the first female skipper to win a round—the—world yacht race.ll be live in liverpool for the end of the clipper race. it's saturday the 28th ofjuly. our top story: a group of mps is warning the uk faces a democratic crisis because of the spread of fake news. a report from the commons media select committee, which has been leaked online ahead of its official release, says voters are being systematically manipulated and urges tighter regulation of social media networks. here's our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones. this report pulls together the story ofan enquiry this report pulls together the story of an enquiry which has roamed far and wide looking into the scandal over cambridge analytica's harvesting facebook data, examining the use of data that during the eu referendum can team, and the extent of foreign interference in uk politics. it is the language used which is most striking, talk of the relentless targeting of hyper partisan views which play to their fears and prejudices of people. it warns that our democracy is at risk and ca

australian wendy tuck became the first female skipper to win the race., wonderful to see you with us, i bet you wanted to have a lie in. that would have been lovely, but just carry on as it have a lie in. that would have been lovely, butjust carry on as it has been for the last year. it has been pretty ha rd been for the last year. it has been pretty hard work. phenomenal experience for you, knowing about new, reading all about you, quite an achievement of course, many people saying you are the first female skipper to have done this but you said yourself, in the post match interview, post competition interview, post competition interview, it is a little more than that for you, it is about the team. lam the that for you, it is about the team. i am the person at the front who just yells, you can tell by my voice, it is about getting the team to come together and make a winning team, luckily enough we did that. how difficult was it to bring them together? it is a matter of getting an even balance between competitive and not so competitive, we had a wheelie